[SauronOfMordor]

It’s been a controversial term, too, weighted with the heft of a brutal and extractive colonial rule: One economist estimated that $45 trillion was stolen from the country under the British, and former Under Secretary-General of the U.N. Shashi Tharoor wrote that the “British colonial holocaust” took the lives of tens of millions of Indians by unnecessary famines.

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More like the British put a stop to tens of millions of killings in India. Conflict between Hindus and Muslims (who had been in the process of conquering and subjugating India for centuries) were especially bloody.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_India

And you cannot overestimate how many lives were saved by things being peaceful enough that farmers could farm (for a counter example, see Somalia).

[marktwain]

More like the British put a stop to tens of millions of killings in India.

Exactly.

Another small example, is they put an end to Thugee, a cult which likely killed millions of innocents.